Audio Book Narration Services
Heard any good books lately? From classics and children’s stories to mysteries or personal growth, we bring books to life with the storyteller’s art and the craft of the professional voice.
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Books for people too busy to read
Audio books offer an increasingly popular escape from the hectic pace of daily life.
People with no time to bury themselves in a good book now listen on the treadmill
at the gym, or while stuck in their car commuting every day. People love to hear
a good story, and their pleasure and satisfaction will depend largely on listening to
a voice that fits the tale and animates the writer’s work.
Cover-to-cover continuity
It takes 6+ hours of finished audio to present a 200+ page book. No voice
actor can record that in a single session – yet we want the audio book’s
listeners to hear one seamless cover-to-cover narration. Thus, one of the
great challenges to the voice actor is to maintain the cadence of the reading,
the timbre of voice, and the distinctive voices and personalities of characters
from one recording session to the next.
Theatre of the mind
The compelling radio plays of the 1930’s and 1940’s paved the way for great audio book
performances. Like the stage actor, the voice artist brings the story off the page;
without the aid of gestures, movement, lighting or props to paint a scene or build a mood.
All must be rendered to the listener in the narrator’s vocal interpretations. Emotions
and tensions i.e. suspense, action, anger, laughter are all faithful to the writer’s intentions
and the listener’s expectations.
Characterization is another facet of the voice actor’s skill that can turn a good read into an extraordinary one. Our professional voice actors can deliver a wide range of accents and dialects that enliven the performance and populate the audio book with varied characters.
Need a cast of characters?
Does your project require a single professional voice narrator, interpreting
the various characters; or should it be like the old radio plays, with multiple
voice actors, music, and sound effects? Whatever finished format you require,
we'll work with your budget and timelines to deliver your book on CD and/or
cassette.
"Rory really brought the text to life in the books we commissioned
him to read. His understanding of the content and the context gave us the
impression he was the actual author! He read New York Times' #1 best sellers
with a delivery welcome to the ears"
Maggie Crowell
Director-Product Development & Operations
Agora Learning institute
"I feel very fortunate finding Rory O'Shea, who transformed my first
novel into an exceptional audio book format. Rory is a total package of talent.
He provided challenging accents and dialects throughout the story. The project
demanded more than just a voice over and rory was creative with suggestions
and options to achieve this."
Chris Love
'If I Could Do Life Again'
Amazon.com
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